From the UK and now on the Canada’s wet coast, Veronica Merryfield made her first headless fretless bass at age seventeen and just kept going. These days she builds to commission, preferring unusual designs that solve playability issues for players with physical limitations or making basses. Veronica has a day job in electronics and software to subsidize her lutherie habit.
▪ bio current as of 2012
2012
AL#109 p.61
Veronica Merryfield
▪ A book aimed at the musician, the hobbyist, and luthier who is open to new ideas; divided into 6 sections on beauty, playability, sound, parts, materials, finishes, and completion.
2012
AL#109 p.63
Veronica Merryfield
▪ The KSM bass bridge has a number of interesting features and is very well made.
2009
AL#100 p.71 read this article
Veronica Merryfield David King
▪ Remembering David Minnieweather (1964-2009) a bass maker and player.
2009
AL#99 p.38
Veronica Merryfield David Minnieweather Harry Fleishman
▪ As a panel discussion at the 2008 GAL convention this must have been the one not to miss. As an article it is engaging and intriguing. Why do electric bass makers get to have all this freedom and the rest of us have to make copies of stuff that appeared before we were born? Bass players seem to always have had more open minds than other musicians, and these three authors have certainly pushed the envelope. With 47 photos.
2008
AL#95 p.68 ALA2 p.39
Veronica Merryfield
▪ Wired plate glass, typesetter’s tables, granite kitchen countertops, and gravestone engraver tables as cheaper alternatives to commercial surface plates.